Few things despair me more than the Itch.io text editor haha
And I know how annoying it can be when you get feedback that assumes a later stage in development so I hope I wasn't too bad :D
No need to apologize! You communicated that it was an early build so bugs are to be expected.
I'll definitely want to give it another shot and try more of the battles. On my first startup I alt+F4 out of the game because I was trying to get the controller sorted which led to a long freeze and the log saying it was unable to free an invalid ID. The log file is HUGE. 2.4GB D:
(I still have it if you want to see it)
When I started the game again, I was above the start point with some items spawned around me. Maybe that was the reason some of the things didn't trigger correctly?